Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.

Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.

True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

The invasions are totally unacceptable and should be stopped forthwith by whoever is doing it.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

I am too old to think.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.